Panda Bear - BuoysVinyl LP pressing. From the opening minutes of Buoys, Noah Lennox's sixth solo album as Panda Bear resembles something both wholly new and intimately familiar to fans and followers of the musician and Animal Collective member's body of work. Lennox's bright, sincere voice is still front and center, along with his beatific approach to melodic structure and vocal phrasing but there's miles of space surrounding it, a guitar and a few textured samples

Moller dons his Beat Pharmacy cap and pushes the mammoth bassline to near speaker-crushing levels to create a deeply hypnotic groove that is accentuated by waves of ferric pads and fractured percussion

etc ) and Timo van Luijk (as Af Ursin

an MPC live jam built around a hypnotic loop slowly developing into a heavy synth-driven Deep House tune

innovative

Think Domenique Dumont floating in a sensory deprivation tank

followed by 'Bitter and High' the following year and 'Six Aces' on P-Vine in 2013

and wanted to make an album that wasn't just a bunch of flashy singles

Austin City Limits

inviting musicians in one by one

like "Got immunized for both flus

They succeed

Malcolm Young